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By Shwan Zulal: Kurdistan Region president, Massoud Barzani, has set the date for the next Kurdish general election at 21 September 2013. Both parliamentary and presidential elections will be held on that date. The candidates running for president have not put their names forward yet, apart from one independent. On the parliamentary front, it is…
A delegation from the two ruling parties, Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) and Kurdistan Democrstic Party (KDP), has visited the headquarters of the Gorran movement. The main purpose for this visit was to ask the opposition party to agree to a delay to the Kurdistan Region parliamentary elections (due to be held before the end…
By Kamal Chomani: Although the date for the next Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) elections has not been set, given that the last elections were held on July 25, 2009, the next ones should be held by July 25, 2013. These might be completely different to previous elections held by the KRG. For the first time,…
KT News and Comment: Sources close to the Gorran leadership have spoken to KT about the party’s disappointment with last week’s meeting between the leaders of the ruling KDP and PUK and Gorran head Nawshirwan Mustafa. They say the Gorran leadership believes the ruling parties are “buying time and wasting time and not making actual…
KT News: The Gorran National Council finished their second round of meetings today. It attracted local Kurdish media attention for two main reasons. First, there was a report on the recent visit by Nawshirwan Mustafa to Masud Barzani in Saladin, when he was accompanied by Ali Bapir and Mohamed Faraj, leaders of two other opposition…
KT News and Comment: Several prominent members of the opposition Gorran movement are upset because they have not been asked to join the National Council set up by their leader Nawshirwan Mustafa. The local media has been full of reports this week of the resignations of three senior members who have complained about this. Is…
KT Comment and News: 29 active members of the Gorran party have announced their resignations in a joint statement to the south Kurdistan media. “From the beginning we began our political efforts and struggle for our Gorran movement with very clear hearts and minds,” they said. “Our mission was to achieve change for the deprived…
KT News and Comment: A summit meeting in Erbil of the three opposition leaders – of Gorran, the Kurdistan Islamic Union (KIU) and Islamic League – was concluded today. This meeting was long overdue and it had been delayed because of the Gorran leaders’ recent overtures to the ruling Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK). Bookmark…
KT News and Comment: Shaho Saeed has resigned as the Gorran Party’s spokesman. This has occurred as Gorran experiences growing internal discontent, reflecting the fact that the Gorran grassroots and a new group inside the party are unhappy about what their leader is doing these days. Bookmark on Delicious Recommend on Facebook Share on Linkedin Tweet…
By Mufid Abdulla: Last week’s visit by Gorran leader Nawshirwan Mustafa Amin to Jalal Talabani at one of his rest houses (following the PUK leader’s return from medical treatment abroad) has shocked many of Nawshirwan’s friends and baffled foreign observers. What does this apparent reconciliation of two once bitter opponents mean for Gorran, the Kurdistan…
KT News and Comment: Gorran MP Ismaeel Galali has resigned his seat in the Kurdistan parliament. In a resignation letter yesterday Galali cited health issues as the main reason for his decision. He also said that he does not want to spoil his legacy, having sacrificed a lot for the Kurdish nation. His resignation follows the…
We publish the following statement by the Gorran Political Research Centre for information and discussion: Both Kurdish parties in power are in an effort to impose two special bills through their security council in Kurdistan. They want to monopolize the entire political life and their justification for this is to protect the region while they take advantage…
By Harem Karem: The recent active antagonism has set all eyes anxiously on the emerging political equations. Political parties have allied themselves with neighbouring states and even, to some degree, slid towards involvement in regional conflicts. This might temporarily palliate the Kurdish condition but is unlikely to resolve the root of the problem since neither…
By the KIE: In June, the Kurdistan Institute for Elections (KIE) observed leadership elections held by the opposition Gorran party. This was the first time that a south Kurdistan political party had agreed to independent monitoring of its internal election processes. A recent KIE report provides a balance sheet of this experience. Bookmark on Delicious Recommend…
